Lot Essay
Sir Nicholas Goodison noted: Two eighteenth-century watch and clock makers of this name are recorded at Liverpool - Joseph Finney (1), 1734-61, d.1772, the most likely maker of this barometer, and Joseph Finney (2), 1770-96. The cistern was originally open and survives intact, but at present there is an ordinary portable cistern in its place.
An angle barometer by Finney with an architectural case and an open cistern is in the Science Museum collection (Inv. no. 1927-1911; N. Goodison, English Barometers, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 69, pl. 18).